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  1. (CNN)Uganda's longtime leader Yoweri Museveni has been re-elected for a sixth term in a vote his rival has rejected as rigged, calling on the country to dismiss the results. Bobi Wine -- a singer-turned-politician, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi -- came a far second in the vote, according to the country's election commission. Bobi Wine, left, addresses the media with his wife, Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi, as security forces surround his home on Friday in Kampala, Uganda. Wine said his team was considering all peaceful, nonviolent and legal options to contest the results, as fears of post-election unrest surfaces, following deadly violence in the months leading up to the vote. "We are the real winners of this election and therefore what the electoral commission announced has nothing to do with the real election that took place," Wine told CNN immediately after the announcement. "I can call on all Ugandans to reject the announcement that has been made by the electoral commission ... to reject them with the contempt with which it deserves." The election commission said Museveni won in a landslide, with 58.64% of the vote, while opposition Wine received 34.83% of the vote. Turnout was relatively low -- just under 10 million people of the country's 18 million eligible voters cast a ballot. Wine said he had evidence of fraud and intimidation, but he did not provide details of that alleged evidence, saying his team would share it when communications lines were restored. He had earlier accused the electoral commission of vote rigging. The internet in Uganda has been shut down for days under a government order. Wine said that he was struggling to get hold of his leadership team after being placed under house arrest on Friday. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni after casting his ballot at in Kiruhura, Uganda, on Thursday. Museveni, 76, has been in power for more than three decades and, ahead of this vote, outside observers believed there was little chance he would relinquish his position. Saturday's results follow months of campaigning that marred by heavy-handed state security responses to anti-Museveni protests, as well as the arrests of civil society members. Dozens of people were killed in the months running up to the vote, including 45 who died in protests in November alone, after Wine was arrested for allegedly breaking Covid-19 restrictions. "It is clear that the violence has not been coming from the people of Uganda, the violence has been coming from the police and the military," Wine said, when asked whether he feared his call to reject the results would lead to violence. Ugandans voted in the poll on Thursday amid the internet shutdown. In a speech Tuesday, Museveni confirmed his government had ordered internet providers block Facebook and other social media, accusing the platforms of "arrogance." By morning of election day, the order was extended. Wine had campaigned heavily on social media as some traditional outlets refused to include him in their election coverage. The internet blackout has raised questions around the integrity of the vote count and also meant biometric machines failed to register ballots, forcing many polling stations to use manual voting and checks. There were reports of late delivery of voting material and insufficient material at numerous polling locations. Journalists traveling to Wine's residence for a press conference were turned back by security forces before reaching his home. Many were also forced to leave the national election tally center, despite having accreditation. Museveni made a victory speech on Saturday evening, in which he said he believed the vote was carried out fairly. "I think this may turn out to be the most 'cheating-free' election since 1962," he said, referring to elections that ushered in independence for the country. "And I'm told that some people were maybe disabling the machines so that they allowed the cheating. But I'm told the machines were rectified and in many cases people voted by the machines." There were a few isolated celebrations on the streets of Kampala, but the city has been largely quiet since election day, with movements restricted and checkpoints set up by security personnel. But many Ugandans have expressed frustration with the leader who has held onto power for 34 years. "I'm a supporter of Museveni and have been throughout my life, but what has been happening over time has made him unpo[CENSORED]r. It's only wise for him now to groom a successor. I know he has a lifelong mission to die as president, but that is a recipe for trouble," 34-year-old Susan Rukari said. Jocelyne Karare, 65, said: "It was not fair right from the beginning. It's no wonder of 18 million, over seven million people didn't turn up. People are tired." Appearing on NTV, Kampala Police spokesperson Luke Owoyesigire said Wine was not under arrest. "We have just provided security in the area, nothing much," he said. Owoyesigire said state security was responding in an effort to secure Wine's residence and protect the candidate after two individuals were seen trying to gain access to the house by jumping the fence, adding one of the individuals had been arrested. But a reporter for CNN near Wine's residence on Saturday said there was still a large military presence around the compound, as well as military helicopters and drones circling above. Wine's lawyer, David Lewis Rubongoya, told CNN that Wine was still under house arrest. "The military is not allowing people to go in. They are just reading whatever results that they want. This election was just rigged in such a blatant way," he said. "It is a sign of intimidation of the regime, but also they are very scared of the people. They lost this election in a very bad way. Bobi Wine is such a uniting factor, so they fear that the people might rise up, so that is why they are keeping him under a kind of house arrest. It is illegal and unconstitutional." He added Wine's team were looking at all legal options to challenge the results once they are all released.
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  7. 1. The Mercedes Ladies were the first all-female rap group. 2. P. Diddy used to be a back-up dancer for Big Daddy Kane and Heavy D 3. Nas co-wrote Will Smith’s “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It,” and it was the only Grammy Award-winning project of his career. 4. Lupe Fiasco admitted that Lasers is about his own inner battle with suicide. He said, “I wrestled with suicide. [I wanted to] document that in a song, explain to people what the fight of it is. There’s this wrestling with fame and success: How much is enough? How much of this money can I blow on Ferraris? What level of fame [shows] that I made it? Is it when the paparazzi are chasing me down the streets? Then I’m famous? Or am I famous now?” 5. Andre 3000 went abstinent before ATLiens came out. 6. Ghostface Killah beat up Mase so badly that he had to have his jaw wired. 7. DMX used to collect bugs. 8. Lil’ Kim was at one time pregnant with Biggie’s baby, but had a miscarriage. She also used to transport drugs on the bus system for him. 9. In Poetic Justice, 2Pac was supposed to have a sex scene with Janet Jackson, but it didn’t end up being shot because he refused to get an HIV test. 10. N.O.R.E. did time for murder when he was a juvenile. 11. Jay-Z shot his brother for stealing money from him. 12. Lil Wayne shot himself twice. http://thoughtcatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/shutterstock_151104389.jpg 13. Dr. Dre didn’t start smoking weed until he met Snoop. So when he raps “I don’t smoke weed or cess” in N.W.A’s 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, he wasn’t lying. At the time he really didn’t. 14. Nas dropped out of school in the 7th grade. 15. When Biggie was recording “Notorious Thugs,” he wanted to practice his Bone Thugs style freely and unencumbered, and so he sent everyone out of the room while he practiced by himself. 16. Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes went to high school together and once battled in their school cafeteria. DMX and Biggie also went to the same school. 17. Gwen Stefani has won the same amount of Rap Grammys as Nas, Drake, 50 Cent, and Busta Rhymes combined. 18. In VHI’s 2002 documentary on Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes from TLC entitled The Last Day of Left Eye, she admits to referring to her drunk self as “Nikki”. 19. Not a single member of the group N.W.A had a criminal record. 20. Both Jay-Z and Dame Dash (co-founders of Roc-A-Fella) were in love with Aaliyah. http://thoughtcatalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/shutterstock_99754295.jpg
  8. (CNN)Forty-six people from the ethnic Pygmy group were killed -- some of them decapitated -- on Wednesday in a suspected militant attack in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo, according to an NGO official based in the central African country. An armed group shot civilians and decapitated others with machetes in Ambedi, a village in Irumu territory in Ituri province, said Christophe Munyanderu, regional coordinator for the NGO Convention pour le respect de droit de l'homme, or Convention for the Respect of Human Rights. A spokesman for the Armed Forces of the DRC in Ituri attributed the attack to the Allied Democratic Forces, a rebel group that operates in the region. Two of the assailants were arrested and are currently under interrogation, the spokesman said. Most of the victims were women and children, said Rachel Taruwayo, the regional coordinator for the provincial government. Munyanderu said that a Pygmy who was hunting during the attack determined the death toll. When he returned to the village, Munyanderu said, he found a female survivor with a gunshot wound and a two-year-old child whose hand had been chopped off. On Thursday, they reached a police post about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the scene of the attack and were taken to a hospital. The woman and child are now out of danger, said David Dedonga, a doctor at Bwanasura hospital. The ADF has intensified its attacks against civilians in the eastern provinces of the DRC in recent years, the United Nations said in July. These attacks have left more than 1,000 dead between January 2019 and June 2020 and may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to the UN. The group has battled governments in East Africa since the 1990s and has ties to several international jihadi groups. Six Virunga park rangers killed in eastern Congo ambush (CNN)Armed men on Sunday killed at least six rangers and wounded several others in an ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, a sanctuary for endangered mountain gorillas, the park said. The identity of the assailants was not immediately clear, said Olivier Mukisya, a Virunga spokesman. Previous attacks against the rangers have been blamed on various militias who fight to control land and natural resources in eastern Congo. "We confirm this sad news. A group of armed men attacked our positions in the region of Nyamitwitwi in the middle of Virunga National Park," Mukisya told Reuters. More than 200 rangers have been killed in the past, including 12 last April in the deadliest such attack in recent memory. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, it is Africa's oldest national park and largest tropical rainforest reserve, covering 7,800 sq km (3,000 sq miles) with a varied landscape of active volcanoes, savannahs, mountains, lakes and forests. Its mountain gorillas, which live on the flanks of a dormant volcano in the park's southern sector, are perhaps the biggest draw for tourists who venture across the border from Rwanda. However, tourism has suffered badly as militant groups and criminal gangs continue to fund a long-running war by pillaging the park's resources.
  9. DH1 , raf camora my favorite german rapper and the song is very nice.
  10. 1. A different denouement for Die Hard with a Vengeance saw McClane turning the tables, so to speak, on Simon Gruber giving him a series of riddles to solve. The face off eventually ended with Gruber blowing himself away with a rocket launcher after the New York cop tricks him into thinking it’s pointed the wrong way. Daft. 2. Those who own the DVD of Dodgeball will be aware that the happy-go-lucky finale full of lesbians and treasure may well have ended on more of a bleak note, simply cutting as Ben Stiller’s White Goodman connects a ball right in Vince Vaughn’s oversized face. 3. The final cut of Terminator 2: Judgement Day ends with a make-your-own-mind-up soliloquy about fate and the future. It could have ended with Sarah Connor as an old lady sitting in a futuristic LA park showing us that everything was hunky dory. Hasta la vista nuance. 4. Jim ‘King of the World’ Cameron also had a second ending for Titanic in which Bill Paxton and the old lady face off over the million dollar necklace. If you thought the original ending was schmaltzy check out the ‘life is priceless’ alternative. 5. Fed up of killing other people Rambo grabs a gun aimed at him and pulls the trigger thus killing himself and ruling out a bajillion sequels. 6. After 90 minutes of knob jokes, arguments about the untimely demise of construction workers on the Death Star and one act of necrophilia, Kevin Smith’s Clerks ends with Dante simply clocking off his shift. However the original ending saw him meet his maker at the hands of an armed gunman. He wasn’t even supposed to have been there. 7. If you made it to the end of I Am Legend you’ll have been treated to Will Smith going kablooey (along with the point of Matheson’s novel). In a surprising reversal of the usual ‘let the hero survive’ approach, an alt scene saw Neville survive. 8. Ripley (or at least her clone) finally makes it back to Earth in a deleted scene for Alien: Resurrection. 9. Those who correctly state that Infernal Affairs is better than its remake, The Departed, often state the need for closure as one reason for its inferiority. It’s a surprise to learn then that one ‘happier’ ending saw the Hong Kong thriller lose its open ending as Andy Lau’s mole gets his comeuppance with arrest, negating the superb trilogy closer in which his guilt sent him over the edge. 10. An original ending for the classic serial killer film Seven saw Detective Somerset (Morgan Freeman) shooting John Doe (Kevin Spacey). This was followed with the cringeworthy kiss off line, “I’m retiring”. In a move that may well re-establish your faith in a God the scene was storyboarded but never filmed.
  11. All four ISIS members involved have been arrested, the NDS said. Kabul (CNN)Afghanistan's intelligence agency have said they foiled an attempt by an ISIS cell of four members to assassinate a US diplomat in Kabul. The US Charge d'Affaires in Kabul, Ross Wilson, was the target of the planned attack on Monday, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement released on Tuesday. All four ISIS members, who were also planning to assassinate other Afghan senior officials, have been arrested in an NDS special military operation in Kama district of Nangarhar province, including the cell mastermind Abdul Wahid. The statement did not provide details on how the four ISIS members were planning to conduct the assassination. The State Department is "aware of deeply troubling reports that members of ISIS-K were plotting to assassinate U.S. Charge d'Affaires Ambassador Ross Wilson," a State Department spokesperson told CNN Wednesday. "The safety and security of US personnel overseas is our highest priority." Wilson has served as the top US envoy in Kabul since last January. "The United States is committed to bringing about an end to conflict in Afghanistan through a political settlement that ensures this country remains sovereign, unified & democratic, is at peace with itself and its neighbors & can preserve gains made over the last 19 years," Wilson said in a post to Twitter on Wednesday. The US Charge d’Affaires in Kabul, Ross Wilson, was the target of the planned attack on Monday, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement released on Tuesday. All four ISIS members, who were also planning to assassinate other Afghan senior officials, have been arrested in an NDS special military operation in Kama district of Nangarhar province, including the cell mastermind Abdul Wahid. “The United States is committed to bringing about an end to conflict in Afghanistan through a political settlement that ensures this country remains sovereign, unified & democratic, is at peace with itself and its neighbors & can preserve gains made over the last 19 years,” Wilson said in a post to Twitter on Wednesday. Reporting contributed by CNN’s Ehasn Popalzai in Kabul, Jennifer Hansler in Washington, and Mohammed Tawfeeq in Atlanta. The Pakistan army on Monday alleged that the terrorist organization Daesh/ISIS is using the Afghan territories to operate against Pakistan with India's backing. The terror group Daesh/ISIS is flourishing in neighboring Afghanistan with "Indian backing" due to the loose control of the Kabul government, Maj. Gen. Babar Iftikhar, the Pakistani army's spokesman said, addressing a news conference in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
  12. No one knows exactly when soccer was created, but the earliest versions of the game can be traced back 3,000 years. Soccer is the most played game in the world. In many countries it is known as “football”. In England, soccer was formed when several clubs formed the Football Association about 150 years ago. Women started playing soccer around the same time as men did in England. However, originally men were the main players in the game. Women’s soccer started to become extremely played in the 1990s. In China, the first soccer balls were made from sewn clothing that was filled with rubble. In Europe during the Middle Ages, soccer balls were made from inflated pig bladders. Today most of the balls are made from layers of synthetic leather while the bladders inside the ball are made from latex or butyl. Some of the different shots in soccer are: The instep drive or knuckle shot The swerve shot The full volley The half volley The side volley The flying volley The maximum number of players on a soccer team is 11. The different positions are: Goalkeeper Centre-back Sweeper Fullback Wingback Centre-midfielder Defensive midfielder Attacking midfielder Winger Forward Striker Soccer is played on a grassy field called a pitch. The field is rectangular and must be between 100 and 130 yards long and 50 to 100 yards wide. An international soccer game is 90 minutes long. The 90 minutes is divided in two 45 minute halves. 12. The highest score ever made in a soccer game is 149-0. 13. The fastest red card in history was given to player Lee Todd two seconds after the whistle to start the game. 14. Lusail, the city that will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup final game does not yet exist. 15. The sport is played in over 200 countries by 250 million players.
  13. Hong Kong (CNN)The ceremonial beginning to Hong Kong's new legal year took place, as everything does these days, over video. Sat in the city's Court of Final Appeal, wearing a black robe, ruffed white collar and white face mask, Chief Justice Andrew Cheung acknowledged the strangeness of the circumstances as he addressed a small audience of judicial officials and others watching online. "The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a great toll everywhere," Cheung said. "The judiciary and its operations have also been affected, and thanks must be extended to our judiciary staff who have worked so hard in such difficult circumstances to keep the courts functioning." But Cheung, who was sworn in as Hong Kong's new top judge on Monday, will face far more challenges than just the coronavirus. He takes office amid an unprecedented challenge to the city's rule of law and the independence of the judiciary, in the wake of anti-government protests in 2019 and the subsequent national security law imposed on the city by Beijing last year. That law criminalizes acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces, and carries with it a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Such vague parameters have provided authorities with sweeping powers to crack down on government opponents as Beijing continues to tighten its control over the purportedly semi-autonomous city. Hong Kong officials had previously promised that the law would be limited in effect, and only target a small number of fringe activists. However, critics allege that since its introduction, the law has been used to forcefully stamp out the city's formerly vibrant pro-democracy movement. Last week, 53 opposition activists, many of them former lawmakers, were arrested under the law, accused of subversion for taking part in a primary poll designed to choose candidate for legislative elections last year -- elections that were subsequently postponed due to the pandemic. All but one of those arrested have since been bailed. But their cases, along with the other dozen or so people arrested under the law, will consume much of the courts' focus in the coming year. Close attention will be paid to how the courts apply the sweeping and so far largely untested law, which was directly imposed by Beijing, bypassing Hong Kong's semi-democratic legislature, and contains clauses which may conflict with existing constitutional and treaty protections for speech and assembly. With both the legislature and the administration in lockstep with Beijing, the courts are the one branch of government which retains some degree of autonomy -- but one which may be sorely tested by the blunt instrument of the security law. In his speech, and in a press conference afterward, Cheung avoided discussing the specifics of the law, arguing that to do so was inappropriate, given it will soon be discussed in court. But he came back to one key point again and again. "It is my mission to do my utmost to uphold the independence and impartiality of the Hong Kong judiciary," Cheung told reporters. "That is my mission, and I will do my best to fulfill that mission." Such independence may be sorely tested in the coming year, and if lost could have great costs for Hong Kong's legal system and fundamental freedoms. In a speech following Cheung's, Philip Dykes, head of the city's Bar Association, noted that "without judicial independence, a pearl of great price, we might as well pack up our bags and steal away, for Hong Kong is nothing without it." But the conflict between the country and the two systems it contains has grown over time, reaching breaking point in recent years. China's legal system stands in stark contrast to Hong Kong's, being highly politicized and almost completely controlled by the ruling Communist Party. In criminal cases, some 99% of prosecutions end in a guilty verdict, and sentences can often be wildly inconsistent, depending on political circumstances, even when the facts of the case are similar. In civil matters, companies and defendants cannot be confident the courts will protect their rights if they conflict with the wider political or economic goals of the Chinese state. The prospect of being subject to Chinese justice, through an extradition bill with the mainland, sparked the anti-government unrest that rocked Hong Kong in 2019. Yet while the protests were successful in defeating the proposed legislation, they also prompted the eventual imposition of the national security law last year, creating a number of political crimes and undermining protections contained within Basic Law, Hong Kong's de facto constitution, while also creating the possibility for defendants to be transferred to China for trial in some circumstances. Such a broad and sweeping law would pose a challenge for the courts to interpret in the best of times, but the security legislation has been accompanied by a climate of immense pressure on the judiciary to deliver harsh sentences to protesters and other dissidents, similar to how cases are handled in China. Judges seen as overly lenient or sympathetic toward protesters have been attacked in Chinese state media and pro-Beijing newspapers in Hong Kong. Writing in the state-run China Daily late last year, one commentator said that "in theory, judges must not take political sides in a court of law, but in Hong Kong many members of the public now see some judges as 'yellow judges' who practice political favoritism for offenders from the opposition camp."
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